Upcoming Live Events
Meet Our Partners Series—”Setting Your Priorities to Work Smarter Not Harder” Tips from the University of Kentucky
This particular event will focus on the importance of managing your limited time and provide a forum to discuss how to say no, set boundaries, and managing expectations for colleagues, partners, and other institutional constituents.
Meet Our Partners Series— “Planning for a Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) at University of Minnesota”
This particular event will focus on the implementation of Comprehensive Learner Record; who needs to be involved, what data needs to be collected and included, and the process and strategy for moving a CLR initiative ahead at a large R1 university. In addition, Steven will discuss how data collected for the CLR will also be used for continuous improvement efforts including HLC accreditation self-study reporting.
Meet Our Partners Series—”Agile Wayfinding: Combining Innovation and Assessment at University of Maryland Global Campus”
This particular event will focus on Agile wayfinding and its purpose in institutional planning and assessment processes. University of Maryland Global Campus has a long history of evaluating innovation and using results to guide the next steps. More recently, assessment of student learning has been added to an academic planning process that includes program review, academic scorecards, and external data on labor and competitive markets. This integrated planning process provides faculty and administrators with a comprehensive view of an academic program. Learn how you can apply this approach at your institution.
Meet Our Partners Series—Johns Hopkins University Second Commission on Higher Education (CUE2) Report Results & Lessons Learned
This particular event will focus on the undergraduate curricular review at Johns Hopkins University, the first of its kind, and the takeaways of embarking on this initiative, the stakeholders involved, and the process for this undertaking. This session will focus on the challenges, best practices, and lessons learned in authentic self-assessment of undergraduate education at an institution and the commitment to using assessment of student learning to pivot, revise and make meaning to impact change.
Meet Our Partners Series—Manageability and Sustainability: Curating Resources for Today’s Assessment Professionals
Assessment professionals need to stick together when it comes to sharing best practices resources to managing and sustaining processes for assessment in their division, unit, or institution-wide. This session will focus on "Manageability and Sustainability: The Cornerstone of Institutional Assessment" the theme of this year’s Drexel Assessment Conference and a call to action for all folks who are "keepers of assessment" who have success stories to tell about assessment and improvement at their institution. Together we will discuss, our commitment to academic quality, and acknowledge that the quality of the student academic experience must be the driver behind all assessment and accreditation activities.
Meet Our Partners Series—The Role We Play In Building a Robust Skills Economy for Learners and Employers
This session focuses on the work of the IMS Global Learning Consortium and its mission to advance ed-tech interoperability, innovation, and learning impact. In particular, this event provides a deep dive into the important work that IMS and its members are contributing to the skills ecosphere to enable all students to share their achievements and outcomes of their lifelong learning with employers.
Meet Our Partners Series—Connect with the AEFIS Product Team
Learn about best practices and winning assessment strategies from our expert users and VIPs—Very Important Partners! Get a chance to have thought leadership discussions with these amazing colleagues and exchange battle stories from the field. This particular special session features the people behind the scenes that help make success happen through clever use of the AEFIS software.
Meet Our Partners Series—Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) Approach to Preparing Today’s Student Affairs Practitioners To Tell Stories of Student Success with Data
In this session, Dr. Joe Levy, Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation at National Louis University and Open Course Manager and Instructor for SAAL will provide an overview of the impact the open-online course has had on learners and some insights into the next course offering plus some interesting new opportunities to enlist the Community of AEFIS Academy in sessions, case studies and blogs aligned to course outlines for the 2022 administration of the course.
Meet Our Partners Series—Assessing Your Non-Academic & Support Units at Texas A&M International
Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) has had great success collecting, analyzing, and making changes based on data within their academic and non-academic units using an intentional workflow and data collection template in AEFIS. This session will focus on non-academic unit assessment, how to efficiently and effectively collaborate with unit leaders, ensure they are collecting the right data on a regular cadence, and empower them to use the data to improve their offerings and programming for their learners.
Meet Our Partners Series—Surviving & Thriving: Texas A&M University’s Improved Self Study Process for the SACSCOC Decennial Report
Leading effectiveness and improvement initiatives at any institution take a clear vision, collaboration, and an innovative plan. Dr. Alicia Dorsey successfully led Texas A&M University through the completion of their SACSCOC Deciennal Report in fall 2021. In the true spirit of collaboration and partnership, she and her team helped usher in a new process to digitally deliver a self-study to their accreditation reviewers—sharing feedback to improve the efficiency and user experience of AEFIS Accreditation & Self Study Solution for other institutions in both the SACSCOC region as well as other accreditation bodies. In this session, we will hear about Texas A&M's approach, timeline, and ingenuity in not only surviving their self-study but thriving forward into a new era of institutional effectiveness that increases efficiencies and decision-making power.
Meet Our Partners Series—Leveraging Academic and Unit Program Review in Service of Your Middle States Self Study
Having a vision for your assessment process is key but putting that vision into action is where the rubber hits the road. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is deeply entrenched in providing leadership development for all of its stakeholders through its Archer Center. The Center is currently employing a program review process that includes collecting assessment data on student life, human resources, ethics, law, policy and governance, diversity equity and access, financial resources and technology, and facilities and equipment. Concurrently, engineering programs are engaged in curriculum mapping and outcomes alignment processes which involve using technology and collaboration to connect with program stakeholders to make informed decisions about student performance and improvement. Listen in as community member Amy Svirsky shares her institution's best practices in collecting assessment across RPI and how these data are informing their Middle States self-study.
Institutional Effectiveness 2.0 in Action—Empowering Stakeholders to Lead Beyond Their Role
Institutional Effectiveness 2.0 in action requires a new way of leading, collecting data, and using data to drive decision-making. It requires leaders to empower their faculty and staff to not only contribute to an institution's success but give them room to lead beyond their titles to accelerate success within their department, college, or unit. And ensuring that stakeholders have meaningful data at their fingertips tell success stories and write new ones fosters the necessary decision-making power required for improvement and change across an institution. Learn from leaders at the University of Kentucky and Lincoln Land Community College who are leading their institution to think beyond their titles to transform theories of change into practice, establish communities of practice, and drive continuous improvement using data to elevate effectiveness, foster sustainability, and a clear return on investment for students.
